HTML not XML
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   http://www.damowmow.com/playground/html-not-xml.html

This is a supporting document mentioned in the following www-talk post:

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/2001MarApr/0085.html

It shows that you can't reliably sniff for XML documents sent as
text/html. This document is HTML, not XHTML. Yet the W3C validator
incorrectly assumed it was XHTML. The validator has since been
corrected to treat this as HTML 4.0 Strict:

   http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.damowmow.com%2Fplayground%2Fhtml-not-xml.html&doctype=Inline

See also a new document I wrote once the validator was fixed:

   http://www.damowmow.com/playground/html-not-xml-2.html

This is an even more pathological case that is also valid HTML, and
which even the new validator incorrectly assumes is XHTML.

This issue is recorded in the public W3C bugs database:
   http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14

 -- ian@hixie.ch